Pope Francis has faced pressure to address the sexual abuse crisis in the Church The Pope has declared that the rule of "pontifical secrecy" no longer applies to the sexual abuse of minors, in a ...

Pope Francis has changed the Roman Catholic Church's laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse. It is the biggest overhaul of the criminal code for nearly 40 years. The new rules make sexual ...

A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic ... advances which recent reforms to canon law have meant, which hold abusers accountable ...

The policy, which permanently removes priests for a single act of sexual abuse, is currently limited to the US. View on ...

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the world, arguing that children ...

Catholic leaders from across Europe are in Rome this week to discuss how the Church can best protect children from sexual ... of abuse. In a message to conference participants Nov. 13, Pope ...

ROME (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse ... canon law and reasoned they could be approved since the Holy See already approved the norms for the U.S. church. “Despite Pope Francis ...